\chapter*{Acknowledgements}

I would like to thank my supervisors, Professor Ingvar Eidhammer and Dr. Harald Barsnes, for the patient guidance, advice, and invaluable feedback they have provided throughout the planning, implementation, and writing process of this thesis. Having such dedicated supervisors has been a great inspiration over the course of the implementation of HP LIMS and the process of writing this thesis. \\

\noindent I would like to thank PROBE for letting me develop HP LIMS, and all of its employees for their inspiration and patience while testing the application over the course of many months. Your opinions on how the application should work have been of great value to me. I would especially like to thank Frode Berven, project manager at PROBE, for allowing me access to PROBE and its resources; and Jill Anette Opsahl and Ann Cathrine Kroksveen for their patience when answering my many biology-related questions, and for providing valuable feedback and insight to the workflow for handling heavy peptides at PROBE. \\

\noindent Finally, I would like to thank my girlfriend, my family, and my friends for their continued support and encouragement, and for always believing in me.